"I wonder if there's time for me to get any more money on?" "No, leave it alone," Lonsdale begged.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
Have you got any more money or not?
— from Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
No written laws can be so plain, so pure, But wit may gloss, and malice may obscure; Not those indited by his first command, A prophet graved the text, an angel held his hand.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden
Tim likewise, being short of stature, though very much the reverse of weak or diminutive, had accepted the name of “Little Tim” with a good grace, and made mention of no other; his son naturally becoming “Big Tim” when he outgrew his father.
— from The Prairie Chief by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
No written laws can be so plain, so pure, But wit may gloss, and malice may obscure; Not those indited by his first command, 320 A prophet graved the text, an angel held his hand.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
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